When Liza Malamut, who is beginning her second season as the Newberry Consort’s artistic director, got a query from Haymarket Opera Company leaders about a possible collaboration in 2023-24, she jumped at the chance.
The result is an unusual mini-festival focused on two accomplished but now largely forgotten women composers from the 17th century: Francesca Caccini, a member of the Italian Medici court, and Sophie Elisabeth, believed to the first woman to have music published in Germany.
